The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) (german: Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft, BLW, french: Office fédéral de l’agriculture, OFAG, it, Ufficio federale dell'agricoltura, UFAG) is Switzerland's competence centre for agricultural issues, responsible for
agricultural policy
Agricultural policy describes a set of laws relating to domestic agriculture and imports of foreign agricultural products. Governments usually implement agricultural policies with the goal of achieving a specific outcome in the domestic agricultu ...
and for direct payments to
Swiss farmers
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
*Swiss people
Places
*Swiss, Missouri
*Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
*Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss International A ...
. It is also responsible for
Agroscope
Agroscope is the Swiss Confederation's center of excellence for agricultural research and is affiliated with the Federal Office for Agriculture, which is subordinate to the Federal Department of Economic Affairs, Education and Research. Agrosco ...
, the
Swiss Confederation's center of excellence
A center of excellence (COE or CoE ), also called excellence center, is a team, a shared facility or an entity that provides leadership, best practices, research, support or training for a focus area.
Due to its broad usage and vague legal prec ...
for
agricultural research
Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture. Profession ...
.
The FOAG is subordinated to the
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Federal offices of Switzerland